He is married to Bonnie Siegler and they currently live in Westport, CT with their two children Buster and Oscar.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Academy Film Archives, Hirshhorn Museum, Pompidou Centre, Musee d’Art Moderne, Vienna Kunsthalle and Austrian National Archive.
[5] He also won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for his production design on the HBO documentary The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm.
[6][7] As an underground filmmaker, Scher uses lights, abstractions and visual effects all paired with music to create experimental short films.
His films have been described [8] as animated still life as they are made from various drawings in which the images change to trigger responses within the human mind.